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Nitrate Mines

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The world's nitrate mines

USGS

A world map shows nitrate mining locations marked by orange circles with "N." Key areas include the U S, Mexico, Chile, and Spain. Major clusters are in the U S (western states), Mexico, and northern Chile's Atacama Desert.

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Nitrate Mines

Prevailing Agricultural Practices

Nitrate Mines

Commercial gardening

Dairy

Grain

Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant

Little or no agriculture

Livestock Ranching

Mediterranean

Mixed crop and livestock

Plantation

Alaska
0.159%
Arizona
211.4%12.2%74.4%0.405%0.105%
Utah
42.61%10.7%
Yukon
100%
Northwest Territories
0.342%
District of Columbia
100%
Florida
0.114%0.118%
Idaho
24.10%31.1%53.6%
New Hampshire
23.1%76.9%
Rhode Island
3.94%
Vermont
0.385%99.6%
Washington
11.0%0.217%6.88%24.7%
Wyoming
110.2%23.1%18.3%
Nunavut
0.595%
Montana
225.6%30.7%5.29%
Maine
0.284%20.2%37.6%12.1%
North Dakota
32.1%63.4%2.35%2.14%
Kentucky
100%
Nova Scotia
0.183%49.4%
Virginia
12.3%80.1%
Delaware
99.1%
Prince Edward Island
98.4%
Saskatchewan
1.89%11.9%81.2%5.04%
Mississippi
17.6%49.2%33.2%
West Virginia
13.1%86.9%
Nebraska
33.9%2.53%63.6%
Texas
63.30%2.73%33.1%56.8%0.184%
Missouri
196.0%4.01%
Louisiana
0.203%45.3%11.7%
Hawaii
1.65%58.6%
North Carolina
0.120%69.0%
Oregon
33.15%41.2%22.3%5.82%
New Brunswick
0.147%0.167%
Alabama
19.1%80.8%
New Mexico
10.302%5.01%0.786%4.18%
Kansas
44.9%0.337%54.8%
Wisconsin
97.7%0.782%1.50%
British Columbia
1.22%2.96%0.192%1.58%0.252%17.2%
Newfoundland and Labrador
25.0%
New Jersey
0.133%
South Carolina
32.9%67.0%
Michigan
99.0%0.555%0.431%
Alberta
13.2%76.8%0.686%7.41%
Connecticut
99.9%
Pennsylvania
15.9%5.77%35.8%
Colorado
0.215%35.4%46.4%
Nevada
15.36%0.608%0.185%
Massachusetts
0.491%6.18%0.195%
Georgia
4.17%60.4%
New York
2.89%55.9%15.1%
Maryland
0.157%24.7%
Québec
2.81%1.06%0.475%
Manitoba
2.12%97.9%
Oklahoma
4.69%21.6%73.7%
Tennessee
99.9%
Ontario
2.23%0.558%0.386%93.7%
California
34.11%9.14%51.8%34.7%
Arkansas
0.748%33.1%66.2%
South Dakota
0.441%8.22%19.4%71.9%
Ohio
40.0%60.0%
Indiana
4.74%95.3%
Minnesota
56.7%29.9%13.4%
Iowa
5.06%2.79%92.1%
Illinois
5.45%18.4%76.2%
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